Edgar Lobel (1888-1982) was a Greek scholar and a sub-librarian at the Bodleian Library, 1919-1934. Mary Lobel (1900–1993), née Rogers, was an historian and editor. The Lobels were married in 1927.

Sir Arthur Ernest Cowley (1861–1931) was an orientalist and librarian. He was Bodley's Librarian, 1919-1931.

George Gilbert Aimé Murray (1866-1957) was a classicist and internationalist. He was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.

Rudolf Carl Franz Otto Pfeiffer (1889–1979) was a classical scholar.

For further details about Edgar Lobel, A.E. Cowley, Gilbery Murray, and Rudolf Pfeiffer see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. An obituary of Mary Lobel was published in the Independent newspaper. No biographical information is known about Owen E. Holloway.